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| Week | Task/Plan | Status |
|---|---|---|
| May 25 - May 29 | Mentee intro with the mentor. I already communicated with the mentor(Sean) | Done |
| June 1 - June 14 | Implement basic functionality of VScode extension. Syntax highlighting of Solidity language. | Done |
| June 15 - June 28 | Rust server for receiving the incoming requests from VScode clients. | Done |
| June 29 - July 5 | Buffer period to complete the remaining work and co-op with difficulties during implementation. | Done |
| July 6 - July 12 | Complete tests and documentation of the Rust server impl. Eval on July 10: Provide reports for first quarter to the program organisers. | Done Eval completed |
| July 13 - July 26 | Work on implementing diagnostics. Prepare the backend to process incoming code. | Done |
| July 27 - August 9 | Work on diagnostics, fixing Range issues and fixing minor bugs. | Done |
| August 10 - August 16 | Buffer period to complete the remaining work and co-op with difficulties during implementation. | Done |
| August 17 - August 23 | Complete tests and documentation of the diagnostics implementation. Eval on August 21: Provide reports for the second quarter to the program organisers. | Done Eval completed |
| August 24 - Sept 6 | Work on the hover feature. List out all possible grammar definitions and start implementing. | Done |
| Sept 7 - Sept 20 | Follow up on the work. | Done |
| Sept 21 - 27 | Finished the basics of hover implementation. Added hover for variable definition and types. | Done |
| Sept 28 - Oct 4 | Complete tests and documentation of the implementation. Eval on Oct 2: Provide reports for third quarter to the program organisers. | Done Eval completed |
| Oct 5 - Oct 18 | Week1: Work on adding support for Function + Return-type + Function params hover. Week2: Work on adding support for Emit token in hover. | Done |
| Oct 19 - Nov 1 | Week1: Work on adding support for struct entries in hover. Week2: Buffer period to follow up on the work. | Done |
| Nov 2 - Nov 8 | Used this week to work on hover implementation. | Done |
| Nov 9 - Nov 13 | Time to complete remaining details and documentation. | Done Eval completed |
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Explanation
A language server is a program that communicates with the editor to provide different editing features for a programmer. The communication takes place in the form of IO buffers and JSON-RPC messages.
The client(extension) uses VScode API's to send queries in JSON-RPC format to the server. The server runs different processes(like file open, edit, hover) which respond to specific requests from client.
Methodology
I followed the “Design-Code-Test-Document” methodology.
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